ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,545, issued on April 8, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Display device having fracture resistance" was invented by Yong-hwan Park (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Seongjun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jongseok Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Eunae Jung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Changyong Jung (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device including a base member, a circuit layer, a display layer, a thin film encapsulation layer, and a touch sensor layer. The base member includes a first area and a second area disposed adjacent to the first area. The circuit layer is disposed on the b...